Attachments - Rainbow Rowell

I got this book at book club. Remember when I talked about book club in my very first ever blog post? The premise of this book club is just to read good books. We don't all read the same book and then discuss it, which would feel too much like an English class to me. I'm sure I would panic about my thoughts on the plot and characters and wouldn't be able to speak coherently. Instead we all bring books we have recently read and enjoyed and then pitch them to the others. We take whatever book looks interesting to us. Sometimes there is a book everyone wants, and then you have to be fast to get it first. Eventually the book will make it around the group. I usually come home with four or five books which I read over the month and then return to book club. However there is no judgment if you don't read much one month or if you keep the book club books for months.

I enjoyed Attachments. It switches from emails between two women who work at a newspaper and the narrative of the IT person assigned to reading emails to ensure employees are not breaking the rules on internet use. I must note that the books is set in 1999 (this will date me, but Grad ’99! Woo woo!) so email and IT was a relatively new thing for companies. The newspaper is very strict on internet use. Only a select group of people are allowed access to the internet, and there supposed to be no personal use of email. The poor IT guy, named Lincoln, feels horrible about reading people's emails, but he begins to look forward to reading the emails between Jennifer and Beth. He likes their conversation so much that he can't bring himself to send them a warning like he does with everyone else.

Jennifer and Beth send emails about everything from pregnancy scares to boyfriend concerns to marriage issues. Lincoln seems to be a typical nerdy computer guy who doesn’t have enough self-confidence to ask a girl on a date, though we do learn later that he's a very cute and kind nerdy guy.

There were a few times that I found myself flipping forward as I wanted the story to move faster. Though this seems to be a common issue for me, so maybe it's my own personal reading issue! The ending wraps it all up nicely, though no surprise as it's a romantic comedy type book. Overall, a good read!